Word: jal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last March ordered 20 new Boeing 737s and took options on 20 more at a potential cost of $1 billion. Also renowned: Australia's Qantas, which has not had a single fatal accident in more than 30 years, and Singapore Airlines, whose planes average less than four years old. JAL, in the aftermath of its 747 wreck, began assigning teams of mechanics to specific planes and, to instill pride, even inscribing their names on a plaque in the cockpit...
Just one of those things, and, fortunately, nobody was seriously hurt. Until a few days later, when the Japanese executive in charge of JAL's food service department apologized to everyone concerned by committing suicide...
...even years for compensation. That may not happen to relatives of the 524 people who were killed in the August crash of a Japan Air Lines Boeing 747. Last week in a highly unusual step, the Seattle-based aircraft maker agreed, for the time being, to share equally with JAL the compensation costs in an effort to ensure swift payment. The expense may reach $135 million. Once the cause of the crash has been determined, Boeing said, it and JAL could then settle up between themselves...
...crash of Japan Air Lines Flight 123, a Boeing 747 similar to many flown by U.S. carriers. A 60-page preliminary report released last week by Japan's Transport Ministry provided a dramatic transcript of voice recordings made during the doomed 45-minute flight of JAL 123. The report, however, failed to establish the cause of "the unusual impact" that crippled the vertical stabilizer and caused the plane to crash into a remote mountainside, killing 520 of the 524 people aboard...
Meanwhile, in Japan, investigators continued probing the crash of JAL's doomed Flight 123 and searching for many still missing bodies. Bereaved families of six of the victims received some small comfort last week: notes penned by loved ones just moments before the plane went down. "Machiko, take care of the kids," Masakatsu Taniguchi wrote to his wife. From Keiichi Matsumoto, there were three words for his two-year-old son: "Tetsuya, become respectable." Former JAL Employee Mariko Shirai, 26, could only scribble: "Scared, scared, scared, help, feel sick, don't want to die." Kazuo Yoshimura offered his wife...